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The Metropolitan Museum of Art

14,933 works

Etching of playful children dancing and one playing a pipe beneath trees in a woodland clearing.

Four Dancing Children (Bacchantes) and Two Making Music

Erasmus Quellinus, 1640-1650

Hand-colored 1869 fashion plate showing five women and a child in bustled dresses in a garden with parasols.

Le Coquet, No. 22, from "Journal des Modes Spécial pour Couturières"

Laure Noël, July 1, 1869

Engraved fashion plate of six women in full-skirted 1860s dresses and bonnets, standing outdoors near trees and a railing.

Six Women Outdoors, No. 676, from "La Elegancia"

Hélöise Leloir, 1865-66

Pen and brown ink drawing of a biblical scene with a bearded prophet raising his arm while Pharaoh's soldiers are overwhelmed

The Destruction of the Pharaoh’s Army

Hendrick de Clerck, late 16th-early 17th century

Two etched friezes showing groups of playing putti wrestling and tumbling across horizontal panels.

Two Friezes with Playing Putti, Premier Livre, Sixieme Cahier, plate 34 from "L'Oeuvre de J. B. Huet"

Jean Baptiste Huet, 1780 or after

Engraved frieze of armor, weapons, banners and trumpets with a helmeted female warrior at center and reclining figures.

Combats et Triomphes

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraved battle frieze of armored horsemen and foot soldiers fighting, with fallen men and horses in the foreground.

Plate from "Combats et Triomphes"

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etched view of a domed palace with wings and corner pavilions, two horsemen in a field, and a pyramid at right.

View of a Town, plate X from "Livre de paysages dédié à Monsieur de Beringhen"

Sébastien Leclerc I, 1693

Etching of a town of stone houses beside a path, with a windblown tree on the left and a mountain behind.

View of a City, plate XI from "Livre de paysages dédié à Monsieur de Beringhen"

Sébastien Leclerc I, 1693

Etching of a man reaching toward a fallen column beside a seated man, with ruined arches and a bare tree behind.

A man reaches toward a fallen column, a seated man beside him, trees and ruins beyond, frontispiece from "Views of It…

Israël Silvestre, 1645

Etching of a Paris street with a Gothic church, tower, and arcaded building beside small figures.

View of the Fountain of the Innocents, Paris, with the Church of the Holy Innocents beyond

Israël Silvestre, ca. 1636-91

Engraved frieze of centaurs and armored warriors battling with bows, spears and shields among nude figures.

Plate VIII from "Battles and Victories" (Combats et Triomphes)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Engraved frieze of a winged woman seated among armor, shields, trumpets, banners and cannons, with reclining figures at the s

Plate from "Battles and Victories" (Combats et Triomphes)

Etienne Delaune, 1540-83

Etching of a wooded clearing with a unicorn and two lions facing kneeling figures by a fountain, watched by a crowd on the hi

The Enchanted Fountain of Love's Truth (La Fontaine Enchantée de la Verité d'Amour)

Augustin de Saint-Aubin, ca. 1783

Etching of a wooded river landscape with an angel and a companion beside tall classical columns on the right.

The Angel Advises Tobie (L'Ange conseillant Tobie)

Henri Mauperché, ca. 1630-80

Engraving of a formal French garden with a central fountain, scrolled parterres, strolling figures, pavilions, and forest bey

Veüe du Grand Parterre et de la Demie Lune de Richelieu

Adam Pérelle, 17th century

Engraving of the garden facade of the Château de Richelieu with a formal parterre, fountain and strolling figures.

Face du grand corps de Logis du Château de Richelieu du côté du Parterre

Adam Pérelle, 17th century

Etching of two travelers passing classical ruins and columns overgrown with trees, with hills and clouds in the distance.

Travelers Visiting Ruins

Gabriel Perrelle, mid-17th century

Engraved ornament panel with a hippocamp holding a trident on the left and a griffin with a cherub on the right.

Design for a Panel with Two Variants containing a Hippocamp and a Griffin, from "Ornements de panneaux à la romaine"

Jean Le Pautre, 1651

Engraved ornament panel with a satyr, a sphinx, scrolling foliage, a shell motif and a cornucopia within a decorative frame.

Design for a Panel with Two Variants containing a Satyr and a Sphynx, from "Panneaux d'ornement"

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Engraved architectural design for a tabernacle with a central arched niche, winged figures, garlands, and relief medallions.

Design for a Tabernacle with Two Variants, from "Tabernacles à l'italienne"

Jean Le Pautre, ca. 1644-66

Engraved design for a decorative choir screen with carved panels, scrollwork, garlands, and figures, from Jean Le Pautre.

Design for a Choir Screen with Two Variants, from "Clôtures de chapelles"

Jean Le Pautre, 17th century

Etching of a seated satyr holding a child beside amphorae, with a tree and distant landscape at dusk.

Evening: a seated satyr clasps his child, a figure hangs a garland on a pier beyond, from "Hours of the Day"

Charles Le Brun, ca. 1640

Etching of an imaginary monument with a pyramid, spiral columns topped with statues, and a camel with figures in the foregrou

Imaginary Architecture with Camel and Figures, after Della Bella

Pierre Moreau, 18th century

Engraving of Christ seated in a room gesturing to a seated woman, with attendants and a kitchen scene at left.

Christ in the House of Mary

Gerard de Jode, 16th century

Engraving of the Raising of Lazarus, with figures gathered around a tomb and a classical town in the distance.

Raising of Lazurus

Lambert Suavius, 1544

Lithograph of a stormy Glenfinlas valley with mountains, rocks, and horsemen with dogs in the foreground.

Vallée de Glenfinlas (Glenfinlas Valley), from "Vues Pittoresques de l'Écosse"

Richard Parkes Bonington, 1826

Etching of a standing lion beside a tree, with a bird flying overhead and a distant landscape with ruins.

Plate 4 from "The Lions"

Marcus de Bye, ca. 1664

Etching of two horses in a field beside a plough and cart, one grazing, with a rocky hill in the distance.

Les deux chevaux près de la charrue

Karel Dujardin, 1657

Etching of a standing goat beside resting sheep and a goat in an open pastoral landscape with a distant herd.

Two Goats and Three Sheep

Karel Dujardin, 1655